| ABRUPTION | • abruption n. (Archaic) A sudden termination or interruption. • abruption n. A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies. • ABRUPTION n. a sudden, violent separation. |
| CAPTURING | • capturing v. Present participle of capture. • CAPTURE v. to take by force or cunning. |
| EPURATING | • epurating v. Present participle of epurate. • EPURATE v. to purify. |
| EPURATION | • epuration n. Purification of a product (such as in the process of sugar extraction). • epuration n. Any type of political cleansing, such as ethnic cleansing. • EPURATION n. purification, esp. removal of officials or politicians believed to be disloyal. |
| PAINTURES | • paintures n. Plural of painture. • PAINTURE n. the art of painting. |
| PASTURING | • pasturing v. Present participle of pasture. • pasturing n. The process of putting an animal out to pasture. • pasturing n. Land used as pasture. |
| PETAURINE | • petaurine adj. (Zoology) Relating to the possum family Petauridae. • PETAURINE n. the flying phalanger. |
| PURGATION | • purgation n. The process or act of purging, such as by the use of a purgative. • purgation n. The process or act of cleansing from sin or guilt. • purgation n. (Archaic) Exoneration or the act undertaken to achieve exoneration. |
| PURITANIC | • puritanic adj. Archaic form of puritanical. • Puritanic adj. Alternative letter-case form of puritanic. • PURITANIC adj. of or like a puritan, also PURITANICAL. |
| RAINSPOUT | • rainspout n. A spout through which rainwater can drain from the roof of a building, etc. • RAINSPOUT n. a gutter, a downspout. |
| RAPTURING | • rapturing v. Present participle of rapture. • rapturing n. A feeling or expression of rapture; great joy. • RAPTURE v. to fill with great joy. |
| SUPINATOR | • supinator n. (Anatomy) Any muscle that aids supination. • SUPINATOR n. a muscle which produces the motion of supination. |
| TARPAULIN | • tarpaulin n. (Countable) A tarp, a heavy, waterproof sheet of material, often cloth, used as a cover or blanket. • tarpaulin n. (Countable, slang, archaic) A sailor. • tarpaulin n. (Uncountable, obsolete) Any heavy, waterproof material used as a cover. |
| UNPARTIAL | • unpartial adj. Impartial, unbiased. • unpartial adj. Not partial (to); antagonistic. • UNPARTIAL adj. impartial. |
| UPDARTING | • updarting v. Present participle of updart. • UPDART v. to dart up. |
| UPSTARING | • upstaring v. Present participle of upstare. • UPSTARE v. to stare upward. |
| UPTEARING | • uptearing v. Present participle of uptear. • UPTEAR v. to tear out by the roots. |
| UPTRAINED | • uptrained v. Simple past tense and past participle of uptrain. • UPTRAIN v. (obsolete) to train up, educate. |